Mstdfr | مستدفر

Today’s conversation brings us to a few pet peeves in Saudi etiquette – serving things with your left hand and taking things personally. We then find out the MSTDFR origin story after realizing there aren’t a lot of podcasts like us. “IT guy” Ali turns out to be a prankster, and shares an adventure with us and highlighting the phenomenon of people teaming up with him. He gives good tips on how to come clean to the pranked. Many age-old Internet debates come up; Are audio books and comic books as legit as real books? Ali distracts the group by bringing up the Game of Thrones books vs the TV show. The gang then admit to their smartphones of choice, with iPhone users being outnumbered. Finally, Ammar shares his high school story, featuring his knife-carved desk and his adventures of being head of his “high school police”. Show Links

1. Picture of Ammar’s carved desk

Errata Whatsapp is in fact accessible on Mac OS X and on iOS web browsers. Sponsors

1. Studio 966, UI/UX & development studio.
2. 31 Workshop Ave, Entertainment Production Studio. Get in touch at @afroott on Twitter/Instagram

25% Arabic – 75% English

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Today’s conversation brings us to a few pet peeves in Saudi etiquette – serving things with your left hand and taking things personally. We then find out the MSTDFR origin story after realizing there aren’t a lot of podcasts like us.

“IT guy” Ali turns out to be a prankster, and shares an adventure with us and highlighting the phenomenon of people teaming up with him. He gives good tips on how to come clean to the pranked.

Many age-old Internet debates come up; Are audio books and comic books as legit as real books? Ali distracts the group by bringing up the Game of Thrones books vs the TV show. The gang then admit to their smartphones of choice, with iPhone users being outnumbered.

Finally, Ammar shares his high school story, featuring his knife-carved desk and his adventures of being head of his “high school police”.

Show Links

* Picture of Ammar’s carved desk

Errata

Whatsapp is in fact accessible on Mac OS X and on iOS web browsers.

Sponsors

* Studio 966, UI/UX & development studio.

* 31 Workshop Ave, Entertainment Production Studio. Get in touch at @afroott on Twitter/Instagram

25% Arabic – 75% English

Today’s conversation brings us to a few pet peeves in Saudi etiquette – serving things with your left hand and taking things personally. We then find out the MSTDFR origin story after realizing there aren’t a lot of podcasts like us.

“IT guy” Ali turns out to be a prankster, and shares an adventure with us and highlighting the phenomenon of people teaming up with him. He gives good tips on how to come clean to the pranked.

Many age-old Internet debates come up; Are audio books and comic books as legit as real books? Ali distracts the group by bringing up the Game of Thrones books vs the TV show. The gang then admit to their smartphones of choice, with iPhone users being outnumbered.

Finally, Ammar shares his high school story, featuring his knife-carved desk and his adventures of being head of his “high school police”.

Show Links

* Picture of Ammar’s carved desk

Errata

Whatsapp is in fact accessible on Mac OS X and on iOS web browsers.

Sponsors

* Studio 966, UI/UX & development studio.

* 31 Workshop Ave, Entertainment Production Studio. Get in touch at @afroott on Twitter/Instagram

25% Arabic – 75% English

Today we talk about art and personal passions. Fayiz Melibary starts by telling us the story of Elon Musk. Then we talk about Huda Baydoon and her artistic contribution to Banksy’s Dismaland. Then we ask the question whether photography an art or not, which gets us into war photography and Kevin Carter’s 1993 notorious photo. The gang then talk about their own individual passions including photography, woodworking & metalworking, puppeteering, and the environment. We talk about the different challenges social we face day-to-day to pursue these passions. Whenever you get 3 parents in the room, the discussion invariably veers to our children; Fayiz, being a dentist, rants how it is very difficult to control sugar and sweets consumption with his children. He even equates candy to alcohol! We also discuss homeschooling as an option for our children and how to encourage our children to pursue their passions.   Show Links – Dismaland – Kevin Carter’s notorious image – Awesome honeycomb knife – Alnoghair Errata Khayra referred to an art piece she believed was made by Huda Beydoun, but was in fact made by Manal AlDowayyan.  

40% Arabic – 60% English

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Today we talk about art and personal passions. Fayiz Melibary starts by telling us the story of Elon Musk. Then we talk about Huda Baydoon and her artistic contribution to Banksy’s Dismaland.

Then we ask the question whether photography an art or not, which gets us into war photography and Kevin Carter’s 1993 notorious photo.

The gang then talk about their own individual passions including photography, woodworking & metalworking, puppeteering, and the environment. We talk about the different challenges social we face day-to-day to pursue these passions.

Whenever you get 3 parents in the room, the discussion invariably veers to our children; Fayiz, being a dentist, rants how it is very difficult to control sugar and sweets consumption with his children. He even equates candy to alcohol! We also discuss homeschooling as an option for our children and how to encourage our children to pursue their passions.

 

Show Links

– Dismaland

– Kevin Carter’s notorious image

– Awesome honeycomb knife

– Alnoghair

Errata

Khayra referred to an art piece she believed was made by Huda Beydoun, but was in fact made by Manal AlDowayyan.

 

40% Arabic – 60% English

Today we talk about art and personal passions. Fayiz Melibary starts by telling us the story of Elon Musk. Then we talk about Huda Baydoon and her artistic contribution to Banksy’s Dismaland.

Then we ask the question whether photography an art or not, which gets us into war photography and Kevin Carter’s 1993 notorious photo.

The gang then talk about their own individual passions including photography, woodworking & metalworking, puppeteering, and the environment. We talk about the different challenges social we face day-to-day to pursue these passions.

Whenever you get 3 parents in the room, the discussion invariably veers to our children; Fayiz, being a dentist, rants how it is very difficult to control sugar and sweets consumption with his children. He even equates candy to alcohol! We also discuss homeschooling as an option for our children and how to encourage our children to pursue their passions.

 

Show Links

– Dismaland

– Kevin Carter’s notorious image

– Awesome honeycomb knife

– Alnoghair

Errata

Khayra referred to an art piece she believed was made by Huda Beydoun, but was in fact made by Manal AlDowayyan.

 

40% Arabic – 60% English

Today we host Abdulhameed Sabban (aka Tudi) a comic book aficionado and expert. We start discussing the DC superhero universe and explore the parallels between Superman and the story of the prophet Moses. We then analyze the Fox vs. Marvel war and the reasons behind the bad blood between the two companies. We then reminisce about the comics we grew up on in Saudi Arabia, Tintin, Mickey Magazine, Bassem Magazine, and Majed Magazine. We later discuss the conspiracy theory that Stan Lee did not invent Spiderman. We finally bring it home by discussing Comics in the Middle East including The 99 and the highly anticipated Bilal movie. Show Links

1. Arabic Batman cartoon intro
2. Mutant X
3. Did Stan Lee really invent Spiderman?

 

20% Arabic – 80% English

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Today we host Abdulhameed Sabban (aka Tudi) a comic book aficionado and expert. We start discussing the DC superhero universe and explore the parallels between Superman and the story of the prophet Moses. We then analyze the Fox vs. Marvel war and the reasons behind the bad blood between the two companies.

We then reminisce about the comics we grew up on in Saudi Arabia, Tintin, Mickey Magazine, Bassem Magazine, and Majed Magazine. We later discuss the conspiracy theory that Stan Lee did not invent Spiderman. We finally bring it home by discussing Comics in the Middle East including The 99 and the highly anticipated Bilal movie.

Show Links

* Arabic Batman cartoon intro

* Mutant X

* Did Stan Lee really invent Spiderman?

 

20% Arabic – 80% English

Today we host Abdulhameed Sabban (aka Tudi) a comic book aficionado and expert. We start discussing the DC superhero universe and explore the parallels between Superman and the story of the prophet Moses. We then analyze the Fox vs. Marvel war and the reasons behind the bad blood between the two companies.

We then reminisce about the comics we grew up on in Saudi Arabia, Tintin, Mickey Magazine, Bassem Magazine, and Majed Magazine. We later discuss the conspiracy theory that Stan Lee did not invent Spiderman. We finally bring it home by discussing Comics in the Middle East including The 99 and the highly anticipated Bilal movie.

Show Links

* Arabic Batman cartoon intro

* Mutant X

* Did Stan Lee really invent Spiderman?

 

20% Arabic – 80% English

Ammar and Rami go at it debating whether management as a profession in itself as important as it is made out to be or craftsmen can/should be able to learn managing their enterprises. Then they delve deeper into the Saudi job market as an institution and analyze it and discuss what is holding it back. Omair explains to us thermal radiation and why darker colors absorb more heat than lighter colors.  

90% Arabic – 10% English

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